Adjustable end truck



i 1 631,545 June 7 1927. YR. E. NELL-Es ADJUSTABLE END ITRUCK Filed J'avn. 28, 1927 ation/m Patented June 7, 1927.

Unire ,STATES RUSSELL n. NELLES, OFREADING, PENNSYLVANIA, nssIGivoRTo nnaniivG CHAIN a PATENT BLOCK CORPORATION, F READING, PENNSYLVANIA,`ACORPORA'IION OF :PENN- SYLVANIA. 1

ADJUSTABLE END Tandis, j

Application led January 28,1927. Serial No. 164,269.Y y

This invention relates to improvements in adjustable end trucks vfor overhead carriers d or travelling cranes, and .the object in the Vpresent instance is rto provide a ,cheapvrandAv simple means for securing adjustment ofthe Y lend trucks on the beams, to the ,end thatfa f end trucks mounted thereon. f

certainV standardization of the parts may be accomplished and provision made for such adjustment in the Workshop before! the parts are shipped for assembly at the point where thecarrier is to be used.

f To this end I have provided a, plate capable of sliding longitudinally on the beam,

and provided with a'set of clampsand bolts, `whereby the plates may be set at any desired is erected. Y y

The invention 1s more fully described! in distance from each other When the structure the following speciiication and clearly il- WhiCh: Y Y

Figure l is an elevational view, showing the beam broken away, and, disclosing bothk VKlustrated in thev accompanying drawing, in

Figure 2 is a plan vieuvv of one of' the ad justable plates.

Figure 3 is an end View `the parts shownl .cumstanc'esl clamps are elachuformed Withfjone extremity setrout'of the plane ofthe body thereof, so y, m

that this bent 'end Willy engage the flange ot'g the beam.` A .A l It is ofcourse evidentthat the onlyrequirementin; the rail memberdS will be a i series ofpei'iorations, 'so' V arranged fasv to I number land distanceapart asmaysuit cirf .l/Vith .the construction, endKL `trucks mayk be applied to rails of any;leingth, being ad:-` justed' thereto when the structure is erected,

orto be applied afterward, this inv contradistinction to the lmethod or "practice ofV building the structure to certain definitedis' "tancesbetween the end-trucks and' then shipping and erecting it as made.

The invention is extremelysimple, but 'the n advantages accruing from this 'torni oi' erecting monorail systems very evident tol versed inv the farti, r A, d

Having thusfully 'described my invention, what I claim andjdesiieto secure by Letters Patent s1'- ber, a `plate onwvhich it isinounted, said plate havinga seriesrot bolt rec ,eiving.per-1 lforations, an vI-.beam onwhich the truck is adapted. to travel, and aV seto't clamping] In an adjustable:endtruckxtoijoverhead4 u y carriers,V the combination of adrucl inem-y plates secured and 'carried -by the -plate and.

truck endv in adjustable position thereon.

Inl testimony 'whereo'itI I aiix .my signature.

RUSSELL E. NELIES.l

'having bent extremities adapted-to engage i 'I' lthe liange ot" theIebeam and tohold fthe- 7 

